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> The age old problem of mobile chips have brilliant performance for about 15 seconds until they thermal throttle.

I think this is a trait of all chips. As a general rule of thumb, both desktop chips and graphics cards come with a huge and noisy fan. Demand for aftermarket solutions is so great that it spawned quite a few specialized companies.

How many high-end laptops ship with at least one fan?



Any chip that isn't cooled is going to heat up and throttle or just shut off in seconds. The point is that mobile devices have a peak performance that you don't really get because you can't cool them enough.

Desktops can have plenty of cooling so you actually get the real speed of whatever you are using.




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